[91085] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP / Outlook Express Plugin Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Seaberg)
Sat Nov 29 19:15:20 1997
From: Erik Seaberg <ems@jrandom.com>
To: cypherpunks@infonex.com
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 23:45:18 GMT
In-Reply-To: <01bcfc90$3e7868e0$LocalHost@jonathan-s-pc>
Reply-To: Erik Seaberg <ems@jrandom.com>
Anyone care to speculate irresponsibly about what PGP is up to, what
with dropping the 2.6 command line in favor of a handful of plugins?
Did they get paid to integrate PGP support in Eudora and Communicator
and make integration unavailable to competing tools? Are they hoping to
sell piles of US$12k+ SDKs? Is there any other plausible reason they
would want to break every tool and script that shells to PGP?
On 1997-11-28, Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> require a "digital ID" from VeriSign, which I have no desire to buy.
Thawte Consulting <URL:http://www.thawte.com> of South Africa offers
certification (including signing PGP keys, vanilla X.509, and whatever
MS and NS did to X.509), and will certify that an email address belongs
to you free of charge (although they require information, such as SSN
for US citizens, you might be uncomfortable giving). Stronger
certification (for a fee) is only available in countries where they have
an agent (which now seems to include the US), but at least they don't
charge per cert.
> not been able to get Outlook [Express] to recognize the PGP plugin
BTW, MS Outlook Express (aka Internet Mail and News) doesn't implement
plugins; that PGP plugin is for Outlook (aka Exchange). OE also mangles
pasted text, invalidating signatures. See
<URL:news:64cr67$suo$1@www-proxy.rz.uni-kiel.de> and followups in
<URL:news:comp.security.pgp.discuss> for the grisly details.
